Quarantine, day 4. Actually it's been excellent. We have a comfortable house, a big garden, and the sun has been shining quite a lot. Our time has been split between football, trampolining, physio excerises, running (I clocked up 4.5km on a 200m lap!), and a whole ton of time on the internet, planning, planning, planning. With all the uncertainty of covid, and the work load of packing up our lives and leaving Canada, we set sail with a one-way ticket to London and another one-way ticket to Spain. We had exactly zero plans for England. Now we have a plan: a rental car, a visit to Northumberland, surfing in the north sea, a stay in the Lake District, visits with family, hanging out with friends. In fact we have planned all the way to the end of the year: the second half of September in sunny Spain and then 3 months in Chamonix in the French Alps (warning: may be less sunny, especially in November).
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Quarantine really doesn't look that onerous
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Unless you voluntarily pick up heavy things
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| Or try to wear a running track into the grass |
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| Lots of outdoor eating, not too hot, not too cold |
And so far one Covid test done (two if you include the one in Ottawa), two more to go. This bit has not been fun - at least one of our group has a very strong resistance to the undeniably unpleasant process of sticking the sticky stick down the back of the throat and up the nostrils. The major upside to the testing is that one of us gets to leave the house and walk/run to the post box. Crystal claimed priviliges and had a beautiful 2km round trip through the village and country lanes of Old Basing. Round two tomorrow morning with the pressure on to make the only Saturday postal pick up.
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| No one likes covid tests |
That's pretty much it for the quarantine diaries. So far, a thoroughly pleasant holiday and one of those rare times in life (made slightly less rare by covid) when choices are reduced to our four walls and life is just simple.
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| A late entry from August 1st - pre-departure pose |
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